I was called out to a 7000 square foot "cabin" in the mountains near Fairview UT. This hummer had settlement on the front left corner, where the bedrooms are. The area was of course mountainous, and the question is what to do about settlement on that side. Here's my assessment

You would think that it should be easy to convert a crawl space into basement. Not so. Here's one example of why

Sometimes contractors suck. And sometimes it's intentional. Here's how I help those kinds of clients

So I had a customer that called me to check out his house and design a cantilever support

This is for a 1928 bungalow that he is remodeling. After I got there we found that this old lath and plaster wall wasn't structural. No cantilever needed.

Got called out on a quick one. The appraiser didn't like the stairstep cracks he saw on a brick and stucco rambler. Should the buyer walk away? I had an answer for that one today.

I had a client that was concerned about the structural condition of his 1920's bungalow. A previous homeowner had run the sewer line through the shelf on the back side of his shelf basement, and left a large hole - to the tune of four to five feet in height. His question was how much of a structural problem would this be? Here's the conclusion I reached.

I get a lot of calls from homeowners who want to convert their basement to a rental or something for the ma-in-law. This was a fun one for me to do because the dude was Samoan. I love polynesians - definitely want to be that in my next life. The dude was open to everything I had to say, so I helped him with the tech side of the window conversion, the stairway and the associated soil retaining, and with information about whether to rent short term, long term or somewhere in between (traveling nurses). It was a rewarding inspection for me

Wondering if that wall in your home is structural or a partition wall? So was this client. Here's how the roof type affects that and how this inspection turned out